Word: leviathan
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Novice candidates for crew will wait until fall to practice on the long-promised, twenty-oared new Leviathan. Members of the staff at the Weld boathouse, denied reports that this training ship would be ready for spring practice...
Ships. Kermit Roosevelt and John Franklin (son of P. A. S. Franklin), vice presidents of the U. S. Lines, last week informed Merchant Fleet Corp. (subsidiary of the U. S. Shipping Board) that they would like to lay up the Leviathan, or better still sell it back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet...
Last month stories that Ambassador Andrew William Mellon had shipped a hoard of gold to Britain and was afraid to go home became so loud that Pennsylvania's Senator Reed felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest...
Comparatively sprightly spawn of this leviathan of lexicons is The Shorter Oxford Dictionary. In two fat volumes, together weighing 14½ lb., it lists some 250,000 words, "covers not only the history of the general English vocabulary from the days of King Alfred down to the present time, but includes also a large number of obsolete, archaic, provincial, and foreign words and phrases, and a multitude of terms of art and science." Begun in 1902, it is more up-to-date than its parent, less unwieldy, and has all the parental authority behind...
Built during the winter of 1923-24, the Leviathan has been used every fall since that time to train Freshman rowers. Constant repairs have been necessary to keep it in use, and last fall the Harvard Athletic Association decided to close its career. It is hoped that sufficient funds can be collected to build a successor during the coming summer...